Australian ''TV movies'' of 1965
Drama and comedy "one-offs" produced for Australian television in 1965.
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- DirectorOscar WhitbreadStarsKeith LeeTerry NorrisJennifer WrightThe story deals with a crew which deserts a ship to find a fortune on the New South Wales goldfields of the 1850s and the efforts of the captain to lure them back on board.
- DirectorJames UpshawStarsRoger ClimpsonTommy DysartBetty DysonA murder drama set in Sydney's Palm Beach.
- DirectorEric TaylerStarsBrian JamesRichard MeikleAnne HaddyA young Cambridge scientist, Donald Howard, introvert and unpopular, is accused of fraud and dismissed from his fellowship.
- DirectorOscar WhitbreadStarsAnne CharlestonLloyd CunningtonMichael DuffieldHenry has been busy with his business. After seeing what his family has become, he decides to take charge.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsWyn RobertsTerri AldredKeith EdenThis is a different production teams' take on the 1960 Australian version using some of the same cast.
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsLynette CurranChuck KehoeDoreen WarburtonA satire on suburbia, materialism, education and television.
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsRaymond WestwellWyn RobertsKeith EdenA drama set in a religious community in Australia during 1900. A doctor stands up to the corrupt elder.
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsDorothy BradleyMaxwell JacksonAmanda FoxA family of four are affected in a big way by a suicide.
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsRaymond WestwellJudith ArthyLaurence BeckA tiny, otherwise inconsequential and powerless European country called Concordia holds the deciding vote in a crucial United Nations resolution. As the U.S. and Soviet Union try to manipulate Condordia so that its vote aligns with their interests, Concordia's wily leader turns the tables on the superpowers, pitting one against the other by playing matchmaker between the son of the Soviet Ambassador and the daughter of his U.S. counterpart.
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsTerri AldredMark AlbistonRaymond WestwellA modern comic version of the story of Daphne and Apollo.
- DirectorKen HannamStarsJohn MeillonReg LivermoreEdward Hepple
- DirectorPatrick BartonStarsRaymond WestwellKeith LeeFrances McDonaldThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorPeter PageStarsRonald DowdGraeme GortonJan Muzurus
- DirectorBrian FaullStarsMark AlbistonCarl BleazbyMichael DuffieldAn English astronaut in orbit, whose wife has left him, refuses to return to Earth.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsGraham RouseStuart FinchKerry FrancisBored Australian soldiers while away the hours with nothing to do during the Second World War.
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsVincent GilEdward HeppleDon ReidTwo people have plans to commit adultery, but their plans are ruined by the arrival of a swagman.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsKeith LeeAnne CharlestonMary WardIn 1850s Hobart an Englishman tries to force his daughter's hand in a marriage of position, but her brother decides to intervene.
- DirectorOscar WhitbreadStarsElspeth BallantyneMichael DuffieldBeverley DunnAn elderly writer, near death, is visited by ghosts from his past, actually himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsRhod WalkerAlan EdwardsJohn GrayWhen two brothers inherit a fortune, one of them connives at murder.
- DirectorJohn CroystonStarsReg CameronElaine CusickVic HughesBrisbane produced TV play set in an Australian seaside fishing town. A romance of a local shopkeeper and an off-season boarder.